your longest workday? i just finished 16 hours

[xSauronx]

god, mondays do suck

ok, i get to work at 6am, dont have my keys, have to rush home, get keys, go back to work....so im at work at almost half past gettin stuff going. im a drycleaner, so i gotta start up the boiler, get clothes cleaned, and then dried for when everyone else comes in after 7, so this is not a good thing

then, we were incredibly busy, far busier than usual and EVERYONE was at work til after 6pm today, which is when we close

on top of that, our dryer for the drycleaning broke, and its prolly a 2 ton machine, or a ton and a half anyway
and we had to take it apart, which meant undoing about 100 nuts and bolts, removing a 300+lb steel plate on the front, pulling out the basket that tumbles the clothes (which, took four people) welding something back together

putting the basket back in, and putting the front plate on, then replacing the nuts and bolts all over the damned thing
i got home just after 10:30

ugh, 16 hours today, and i still gotta be up around 5 tomorrow so i can be in at 6 again, this time with my keys...i think

longest day ive had was prolly over 18 hours, cleaning up after a flood, and a couple months ago we had to do the same thing to the dryer, only it was the first time we ever did it, so i got home after midnight, for 18 hours of work

anyway, whats the longest work day you guys have had? any of you, for whatever reason

ugh, its after 11pm and im not tired cause i had to take a shower, tomorrow is gonna suck like hell too

 

[vi edit]

About 32 hours. I slept for 3 hours on my office floor around hour 22 or so.

 

[Bignate603]

I've done 18 as a summer intern, then 16 the next day after 4 hours of sleep...

 

[OREOSpeedwagon]

Sounds like somebody's got a case of the mondays! *ducks*

 

[Dedpuhl]

Longest workday? I've come close to 23 hours w/ only 2 breaks.

I have worked 80 hours in 5 days at least 4 times.

 

[StageLeft]

Actually paid labor probably like 11 hours and that wasn't really busting my balls. I'm a lazy punk who has yet to really confront a full day of work.

 

[Beau]

Catalog layout deadline weeks are hell. I've worked 80 hours straight numerous times -- at least once a quarter.

 

[thawolfman]

~14 hours.

 

[datalink7]

18 hours.

10 hours at McDonalds, then immediatly to my Custodial job at a church for 8 hours (they were having some event).

Usually it was just 10 hours at McDonalds and 3 hours at the church, Monday through Saturday over the summer.

 

[Anubis]

i worked 2 10 hour shifts once 20 hours thats sucked major ass

 

[freakflag]

39.5 hours solid. I used to drive a tow truck, and, we had this particulary henious blizzard...
I made close to a $1000, but, after I hit the 36th hour I really shouldn't have been driving.
Ever stay up that long? Things start to get really wierd.

 

[NetworkDad]

18 hours.

I've had multiple pay periods in the past where i had 80 hours of overtime in one check. Taxes are a bitch!

 

[Anubis]

longest ive been up for is about 60 straight hours. and YES its gets weird. time seems to stop and the normal laws of physics no longer apply.

If you have ever seen Insomnia with Pacino what he expirence really happens

 

[Beau]

Originally posted by: TheEvil1
longest ive been up for is about 60 straight hours. and YES its gets weird. time seems to stop and the normal laws of physics no longer apply.

If you have ever seen Insomnia with Pacino what he expirence really happens

Very true. Last time I worked an 80 hour shift, I had a head cold too. The only thing that kept me awake was my gratuitous consumption of DayQwill® & RedBull ™ I started hallucenating after 60 hours.

 

[Hamburgerpimp]

Longest work day I had was a 12 hour meeting the other day. It taxed me so bad I have to take a week off! And next week, too.

 

[CraigRT]

8 hours usually at most.
7.5 average.

I've done 12 or so... Don't hate it really.

 

[Colt45]

15hrs recarpeting a restraunt, and then i had the brains (lack thereof) to go to school after working all night.

almost fell over at school.

and then the fvcker burned me too, i think i ended up getting $55

 

[amdskip]

I've worked a 11 hour day doing construction on a steel house but thats about it.

My dad has worked some crazy days. For 52 days straight, he worked 12's every day with no days off.

 

[xuanman]

i hate long hours. after around 15 hours is when my internal temperature regulation starts going haywire and after 24 hours i start losing my senses.

 

[Radiohead]

2x 12 hour days back to back... I gave up on whatever I was trying to fix the first day & just went home, had to pull another 12 hour day the day afterwards

 

[HamSupLo]

i had a pretty cool monday today..got in at 9, nothing to do since we moved to a new office where the computers and desks haven't been delivered yet. Boss wasn't there, took a nap and left at 4. shweet!

 

[Atlantean]

Longest I have had was 18 hours, I worked 5-3 at one job, then went for a 3:30-11:30 at my other job.

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

6:30am to 11pm...what that...14.5 hrs?

 

[Pliablemoose]

3 & 4 12 hour shifts back to back for years now...

Longest paid shift 26 hours.

 

[MaxDSP]

i worked close to 13 hours straight a couple of weeks ago. The most I worked in a day was around february of this year, from 6-2 at one job, and 2-9 at another job.